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Teatro di Marcello is latest Rome monument to be lit up at night.
The Theatre of Marcellus has become the latest Rome site to be illuminated by the capital's energy supplier ACEA.
The new LED ligthing system involves...
Fine and ban for Dutch citizen caught in Piazza Navona fountain.
A 36-year-old Dutch citizen was fined €550 after being caught in the act of taking coins out of the Fontana del Moro in Piazza Navona at dawn on 14 July....
Tourists no longer allowed to sit at Trevi Fountain in Rome.
Rome traffic police cordoned off the Trevi Fountain for more than two hours on the afternoon of Saturday 13 July due to the excessive amount of tourists, acco...
15th ATAC bus to go up in flames this year.
A Rome city bus burst into flames on Via Appia Nuova on the afternoon of 12 July, becoming the 15th bus to catch fire in 2019.
The driver managed to evacuate all passengers...
Palazzo del Quirinale in Rome celebrates contemporary Italian art.
Italy's presidential palace in Rome - the 16th-century Palazzo del Quirinale - has added 68 pieces of contemporary art by Italian artists and designers...
Vatican opened graves of two princesses in search for missing girl.The two Vatican tombs opened on 11 July in relation to the Emanuela Orlandi mystery have been found empty, reports Italian news agency ANSA.
The Vatican...
Rome publishes list of fines to discourage bad behaviour in the city.
Rome's new legislation governing decorum in the capital is now in force, along with newly-established fines, after the city updated a raft of regulat...
Fassi gets ready to celebrate 140 years of gelato in Rome.Rome's oldest gelateria, Palazzo del Freddo di Giovanni Fassi, is preparing to celebrate its 140th anniversary by asking Romans for their memories of the famed ic...
Guide to help expats navigate their way through Italian bureaucracy.
Many expats protest about bureaucracy in Italy, but let’s be fair: this scourge exists in every society. And as more and more forms need to be filled...
Street artist Maupal meets students of Rome International School.
The International Baccalaureate Primary Years Programme (IB PYP) is a transdisciplinary programme for children from 3 to 11 years of age. It is recognise...
Orlandi family hope to solve 36-year old mystery.The Vatican has ordered the opening of two tombs in a cemetery adjacent to St Peter's in the latest effort to solve the mystery surrounding Emanuela Orlandi, the 15-year-o...
Rome to restrict botticelle carriages to city parks.
Horse-drawn carriages, or botticelle, are to be banned from Rome's streets but will be allowed to operate in the city's parks following legislation approved by the mu...
Netflix sponsored last year's Christmas tree in Rome.Rome is seeking a sponsor for this year's Christmas tree, to be installed in the central Piazza Venezia from 8 December until 6 January 2020.
The goal is to "repeat o...
Everything in the Garden's Lovely: Discovering Empress Livia’s country retreat in Rome.
Twenty-year-old Livia Drusilla must have considered herself lucky. Born in 58 BC into a wealthy noble Roman family – beautiful, int...
Dolphin swimming off Rome coast with rubbish bag stuck to fin.
The dramatic image of a dolphin swimming off Rome's coast with a black rubbish bag stuck to its dorsal fin has brought renewed focus on the garbage crisis a...
Rome gardeners used city vehicles and tools for private work.
Nine employees of Rome's park and gardens service have been suspended for one year following a police investigation into abstenteeism, including the practice...
Rome: a tale of two cities? In many major cities across the globe, there often exists a north-south divide which is not simply geographical.
While it is most commonly displayed as playful banter, such divisions are ofte...
Blame game between political rivals Raggi and Zingaretti.
The admistrations of the city of Rome and the Lazio Region are engaged in a bitter war of words over an ordinance to clear the backlog of rubbish accumulated on...
Did you come to Rome hoping to meet an Italian stallion who would whisk you off your feet with candlelit dinners and whispers of sweet nothings in your ear?
Then lucky you – you’re in the right place. But a word of cau...
Two-year-old girl among the injured near Ponte Sisto in Rome.
Eight people were hospitalised, including two small children, after a large branch broke off a tree along Rome's Lungotevere and fell 12 metres onto the Tibe...
Rome given ultimatum to clean its rubbish-strewn streets.
The Lazio regional government is to make its waste disposal plants available to Rome, following the intervention of Italy's environment ministry.
The deal car...
Tourists take to the sea as Stromboli's volcano erupts.
The volcano on the Italian island of Stromboli erupted on the afternoon on 3 July, killing one hiker and sending frightened tourists fleeing into the sea.
The v...
Putin to meet Conte, Mattarella and Pope Francis in Rome.
Russian president Vladimir Putin comes to Rome on a state visit on Thursday 4 July, at the invitation of Italian prime minister Giuseppe Conte.
The visit will...
Angry Hugh Grant mistakes Rome rubbish boss for paparazzo.Hugh Grant and his wife inadvertently ended up in a video taken by Luisa Melara, the president of Rome's waste collection service AMA Roma, as she used her cell p...
Ancient religious festival held in Rome's Trastevere every July.
The annual Festa de’ Noantri takes place in the Rome district of Trastevere from 15-29 July. Central to the festival, which dates back to the start of t...
Rothko in Lampedusa. The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees offered five young refugee artists a residency in Venice during May to coincide with the Biennale.
Barca Nostra lies at the far end of the Arsenale...
No injuries in Rome's latest bus fire.
A city bus operated by Rome's public transport company ATAC burst into flames while in service at 20.30 on the evening of 2 July.
The incident took place on the number 058 bus o...
Rome tourists baffled after city installs wrong street map.
Tourists arriving into Rome's central Piazza Venezia have been left scratching their heads thanks to a new information panel, with detailed street map, install...
Disease risk linked to cockroaches, rats, flies and seagulls at Rome bins.
"There is a risk of passing from a hygienic emergency to a medical emergency, and therefore the risk of spreading diseases" due to the rubbish p...
Elizabeth Rodini succeeds Peter Benson Miller.
Scholar and curator Elizabeth Rodini begins a three-year term as the Andrew Heiskell Arts Director at the American Academy in Rome (AAR) on 1 July.
Rodini, who comes to...
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